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Organizations

The following is a partial list of standard issuing bodies for industry.

AASHTO - American Association of State and Highway OfficialsACI - American Concrete Institue AGMA - American Gear Manufacturers AssociationASHRAE - American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning EngineersASME - American Society of Mechanical EngineersANSI - American National Standards Institute API - American Petroleum InstituteASTM - ASTM International (formerly known as the American Society for Testing and Materials)AWWA - American Water Works AssociationIEC - International Electrotechnical CommissionIEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ISO - International Organization for StandardizationITU - International Telecommunication UnionNACE - Corrosion SocietyNFPA - National Fire Protection Association SAE - Society of Automotive Engineers UL - Underwriter Laboratories

How to Order Standards

The Texas A&M University Libraries can order standards that are not already available in the libraries or in other online databases. Use the tabs above to access full-text standards of ASTM, ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Codes, API, and IEEE.

Standards Ordering Policy

This policy is for standards ordered from the SAI Global Standards database.

Standards requests will be filled if:

The requestor is affiliated with TAMU College Station, Galveston, or Qatar.

The standard is required for instruction or research (unfunded research).

In the case where the standard is required for a course, the print version of the standard will be ordered and placed in Course Reserves.

In the case where the standard(s) is needed for research, the TAMU/TAMUG/TAMUQ professor, researcher, or graduate student must request the standard. External co-researchers' requests will not be filled.

Additional Information:

In order to ensure that the standards funds are distributed fairly, orders per person or lab are limited to $1000/year.

Only one copy of a standard will be ordered per person or lab.

Professors and researchers are expected to use their grant money to pay for their standards before they request standards from the TAMU Libraries.

Undergraduate requests will be handled on a case-by-case basis. Requests to support senior projects will generally be approved.

What are Active, Cancelled, & Superseded Standards?

These are definitions of some standard designations:

Issued - The first time a standard is publishedRevised - an active standard that has been updated and republishedReaffirmed - a standard which has been reviewed by the technical committee and determined to be current with no immediate revisionInterim -Cancelled - a standard that is is deemed to be 'not fit for use' due to technical reasons or when its technical requirements are totally superseded by another documentSuperseded - A standard that has been replaced by a more recent standard. The replacement standard might bear the same number and title.Withdrawn - when a standard is not up to date technically, does not reflect current practice or research, not suitable for new and existing applications, not compatible with current views and expectations regarding quality, safety, and the environmentDraft -